Evaluation categorizes, technologies decision for a Composite Environmental Performance Indicators (LWC-EPI) solution

Abstract

Rapid environmental changes have necessitated a closer and more critical review of current environmental policies. In light of a myopic tendency to focus on short- to medium-term objectives within organizations, environmental issues are usually not given full attention. In this regard, recommendation- or dashboard-like systems are useful to increase the awareness of management as to the impact of their decisions on the environment on a more frequent and cost-effective basis. However, the role of current environmental management information systems (EMIS) in providing organizations with the information enabling them to assess the current impact of their processes and operations on the environment has been given more prominence. Information technology is changing business in ever shortening cycles. Especially with the success of the Java platform, the standardization through the i386 hardware platform and last but not least the rivalry introduced by the Free, Libre and Open Source Software (F/LOSS) paradigm a sheer inconceivable amount of programming languages, integrated development environments, design patterns and programming frameworks have been disseminated. In this paper, we will start with a state of the art of the available tools support providing dashboard-type solutions to control and monitor the EPI’s in an organization, which may lead to reduce the gap between estimated values and current running values for environment on a more frequent basis than a mere yearly review. Furthermore, we will propose an evaluation categorizes to be used as a methodology to take the technologies decisions.